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Value-added fiction editor: Human vs. machine
You’ve finished your novel. Your draft is complete. Now all you need is a fiction editor . The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Oct 17, 20243 min read


Book-Editing Services: The Benefits of Professional Input
Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden. (Larry Enright) Working out...
Sep 24, 20242 min read


Authors and editors and the art of making it up
Creative invention, author-style Fiction is clearly the realm of creative invention, so when authors dream up and plonk neologisms into...
Jul 4, 20242 min read


Not Losing the Plot
The road to unforgettable storytelling. Story is crucial to any novel. It holds a book together, unites characters and subplots, and...
Jun 7, 20242 min read


Editors: The Seven Deadly Myths
Reassurance for worried authors. Once in a while, I chat to authors, who mutter darkly about the terrible things they’ve heard about...
Mar 26, 20242 min read


I hired an editor ... and it changed everything
And yes, I’ll definitely be going back to her next time.
Feb 20, 20245 min read


CPD: Learning something old in a new way
For those of us who’ve been working in a particular field for a significant length of time, it can be difficult to find training courses...
Feb 19, 20242 min read
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